2007-02-22

What are you going to do forever?

So I'm sure you've seen those signs in front of churches: "How will you spend eternity?"

So I'd like to turn that question around to the religious people out there. How will you spend eternity, or better yet "What will you do forever?"

Have you ever really thought about it? Do you really understand how long that will be?

What are you going to do for all that time? At what point will you get so bored that you want to kill yourself (but you're already dead, so how will that work?).

I'm completely serious here. The average person lives about 80 years give or take. You're basically an adult for about 60 of those years. I'm sure you have already been bored in your life at one time or another as it is.

Imagine 100 years, just try. Now 1,000. That might be OK; there would be a lot you could learn during that time. Of course, if you don't enjoy learning new things, you could be in trouble. How about 10,000 years? How about 1,000,000. Now take that times 1,000 and you get 1 billion. 1 billion years. I don't think most people have the capacity to really understand how long 10,000 years is, let alone 1,000,000,000.

You aren't going to be able to do anything "exciting" or "dangerous". Again, you're already dead so you can't take any changes because nothing bad could happen to you.

How about sex. It seems that man Christian based churches think that there won't be any sex in heaven, especially since sex is a sin. Perhaps you would get to have sex with your spouse if you were married before you died though. What if you were married and your spouse died and then you re-married (allowed by many religions). Do you get to have sex with both spouses in heaven? At the same time? Man it's going to suck if you're single when you die if this is the case. If a woman has had breast implants does she get to keep them or does she revert back to the original size? How about breast reductions?

So really, what are you going to do forever?